What Is It about THIS Particular Story?

[tattiff]

Okay, last summer and during the early part of the TV season, I caught up on The Office, the American version. It was impossible not to get immediately attached to everything about it. The dry humor; the incredible nuances (blink and you might miss something); the boss that makes you squirm it's so uncomfortable and yet has a brain and a heart

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[theladyswan]

Oh Love. Man do I feel you. I agree, I don't feel normal when it comes to how I feel about love stories. Like the other night for example, when I was watching Desmond's episode and the part at the end with him and Penny happened, I cried like a little baby. And I love them as a couple but I'm nowhere NEAR as invested emotionally in them as I am, Jack & Kate. I forget about them when it isn't a Desmond episode - yet I think about Jack & Kate literally every day. They move me. And I definitely don't feel "normal" for feeling this way. LOL. But man if I'm like that for Desmond Penny...Imagine what I'll be like when we get another one of these...


I've never watched the British version of The Office, I'm a HUGE fan of it as you know. Jim and Pam hooked me from the start...well, along with Dwight and Michael but - I'm just in love with the both of them. Their situation seems like it could be real which, I think, is kind of more personal because its realistic and its beautiful. How lucky any of us would be to let alone meet someone who completes you in that way, who is your best friend, your soulmate, and then to actually have that person love you like you love them? Its just gorgeous.

I have lots of couples I love like this, so don't feel bad - I love John/Aeryn from Farscape - Talk about another entertaining dynamic. The human and the alien who isn't human, but just looks like she is. Gah. He's so gorgeous, too. Gosh, maybe I should do a post on this. I saw this meme one time where you talk about your top 5 ships, show pictures of your favorite moments like you did in your post and explain them. That sounds like a lot of fun. Lets do it. :)

Anyway - I'm pretty passionate about this myself so I'm glad I have someone who relates. ♥

[tattiff]

LOL I completely cried too during the Desmond/Penny stuff. And as I've told people, it's not because I'm a big Desmond/Penny shipper. I'm really not. It's just that it feels so BIG, you know, so important. Desmond/Penny are the cosmic couple though. Whether or not you feel a connection to them, the show has set them up to be a really crucial part of the mythology and fabric, much like Jack/Kate. Yeah, when I see a couple or relationship that's just that huge, it always catches my breath a little. I was telling Jen, I knew that when Sayid apologized for not being able to hold the line longer that Desmond would say, "That's enough," because that's just what I was thinking. It was enough.

Yeah, it's been a tough road with Jack/Kate. I think I really will be fully invested again when they head toward the final act and start really writing them together. I'm just kind of biding time right now, though I'm in a good place. But I was INSANELY obsessed with them exactly two years ago. When I saw the Everything vid for the first time, I swore something was really wrong with me. I kept having to pause I was crying so hard. A real Jack/Kate kiss, though, the next one, will probably have me shaking.

If you want to know something, that last Tim/Dawn scene is as great as every Jim/Pam moment. It's just quintessential. You should at least look it up on YouTube or something. It's just worth seeing. It almost had me crying again. :P

I really think that's what it is, though. This kind of relationship, like Tim/Dawn and Jim/Pam, just feels so everyday and real. So ordinary, but in that it's special. Just something about working with someone for years and you've just got this great friendship and bond and to know that it goes beyond even that, that it's the greatest love you've known, is just amazing. And the big thing with Tim/Dawn is that, like Pam, Dawn has dreams of being an illustrator. And her loser boyfriend is always beating her down about it, telling her it's hopeless and she'd never make it. But Tim is so supportive and encouraging always. He thinks she hung the moon. Anyway, Dawn and her boyfriend have only come back to the office for a Christmas party, then they're going to move away. So Tim gets Dawn for Secret Santa (sound familiar? :p), and he buys her an oil painting kit. He also includes this sketch she did of him and on it he writes, "Never Give Up." Dawn doesn't open it until she leaves the party and is driving away to the airport. But then when she sees it, she has tears streaming down her face. Next thing you know, she's back at the party. You can tell from that first pic (which I just LOVE) that she's been crying and she ready to lay it all on the line to pursue this with Tim. How the oil painting kit really isn't about being some big illustrator, but more about how he loves her and accepts her for who she is. I loved listening to the actress in an interview say that probably Dawn would still be the receptionist and maybe she'd never become some great illustrator, but she would be "dead happy."

Okay, that would be a fun meme. I'll do it if you will. ;) Just give me a little time to narrow it down. Oh, and can I include Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice even though it's a book (and then movie)? I think they're my ultimate ship. LOL

Thanks for relating, Carrie. I know you feel pretty passionately too, so it helps to know I'm not alone because even though I know we're in the company of romantics, I feel like I'm obsessively hopeless most of the time.

*hugs*